Since its appearance in France in 1Er January 2008, the environmental bonus/penalty strongly affects the selling price of new cars. It was originally created to encourage the renewal of the car fleet by rewarding buyers of a car that emits few greenhouse gases. Vice versa, polluting models were fined, reducing their selling price : + EUR 50,000 today for a large gasoline SUV that emits more than 225 g of CO2 per kilometer! The bonus, for its part, does not exceed 5,000 euros, or 7,000 euros for the most modest households. Some conditions: To benefit from this, the model in question must have selling price less than 47,000 euros, weight less than 2.4 tonsand above all to be 100% electric !
Promote local production
Anyway, these are the rules as they stand now, plug-in hybrids no longer qualify for the bonus. All this will soon change! The government announced a new scale for 2024, which will now take into account the location and method of production of the respective electric vehicles. Specifically, this means exclude from the system models assembled far from Europe, for example using coal-fired power, and whose total ecological footprint is very high (raw materials, intermediate processing, transport, logistics, etc.). Therefore, next year several electric models will no longer be eligible for the environmental bonus…
Buy today!
In other words, and for the corresponding models, you should not waste time before buying yours! This applies to some of the most affordable electric models. This is Dacia Spring, assembled in China, Tesla Model 3 Propulsion (and some Y Propulsion models). the new Mini Cooperwith Smart #1 and Volvo EX30 in particular. The same story with models of Chinese brands that are assembled at home: Aiways U5 and U6, Leapmoto T03, Seres 3, BYD Atto 3 and Dolphin, MG4, MG5, MG ZS EV and MG Marvel-R. But it could be so Korean and Japanese models are also affectedas Kia Niro, Nissan Ariya and Mazda MX-30 in particular. If you are in doubt and if you are interested in one of these models, take this opportunity before you completely abandon those 5000 greetings…
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Source: Auto Plus
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